STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2399 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 24, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sen. COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation AN ACT to amend the transportation law, in relation to the intentional removal of identification markers from commercial motor vehicles in the city of New York The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph c of subdivision 2 of section 140 of the trans- 2 portation law is amended by adding a new subparagraph (viii) to read as 3 follows: 4 (viii)(a) In a city with a population of one million or more, no 5 person, corporation, limited liability company or business entity, joint 6 stock association, partnership, or any officer or agent thereof, shall 7 knowingly remove or allow, permit or authorize the removal of identifi- 8 cation from commercial motor vehicles that transport property in intra- 9 state, interstate or international commerce, for the purpose of evading 10 a traffic infraction. Such identification shall include, but not be 11 limited to, vehicle registration pursuant to section four hundred one of 12 the vehicle and traffic law, number plates pursuant to section four 13 hundred two of the vehicle and traffic law, and vehicle identification 14 pursuant to section one hundred forty-three of this article. 15 (b) A violation of this subparagraph shall be punishable by a fine of 16 not less than two hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars. 17 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD08696-01-9